The house of the rising sun is an old folk song. And like most
folksongs the exact origins and author are unknown. The oldest published
lyrics were written down by Robert Winslow Gordon, an academic collector
of folk songs, in 1925. Throughout the last century many different
covers of the song have been made with many different styles. I would
like to look at a large collection of different covers and see if all
these drastically different versions have things in common or whether I
can group them into different types of covers (other than just the genre
on which the cover is based).
The chromagram of the song: House of the rising song version by River
Matthew.
All the chromagrams show high levels of A and D. This is not all to
surprising as the song is in the key of D (key=2 given by Spotify), D
being the root note and A being the perfect fifth. The mode of the song
is minor, which is confirmed best by the Chebsyshev chromogram, which
show F and very little of F# (which would be major).
library(tidyverse)
library(spotifyr)house <- get_playlist_audio_features("", "3Bjr19sZK5leO42HHU5Uwo")
ggplot(house, aes(x=energy)) +
ggtitle("Energy distribution over all the songs")+
xlab("Energy") +
ylab("Count") +
geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.1, color="white", fill="aquamarine3")